>>183096
LOL

Take it slow man, those other guys rushed headfirst (vinefirst?) into oblivion.

>>183100
Dude, I'm the one who blew everything up. I WAIT FOR NO PLANT!

>>183080
Okay, I'm going to attempt to utilize the cold and my nectar to douse the fire. If this doesn't work, I don't know what will happen :c

i think we should have a very simple top and a fuck-huge root network. with multiple food pockets so that are virtually unkillable.

so im guesing my floater is cinder now.

>>183104
banana's do that. they spawn from their roots. you know what does that too? TIBERIUM.

we should check if we can breed first. we need to discover if we are hemaphrodite or not.

did i just tried match making a flower?

o 2010/05/26(Wed)20:48 No. 183744 ID: 45be60
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>GROW
K!
>NO WAIT GO SLOW!
Erk!

Okay, so if you are all gonna be here together, you might have to start agreeing on stuff, or its gonna be hard to get anything done.

On the plus side, it seems like you might not NEED a huge root system to sustain yourselves here. The nutrients here are very rich, and deliciously close to food already. It takes only a small amount of the (unfortunately pretty weak) light here to process it. And best of all, new nutrients seep into the area around your roots much faster than you are used to. You doubt you could ever deplete them with normal growth.

>>183744
So how's my tulip doing on the whole putting out the fire using the cold and my nectar thing going?

okay guys, how about making a root go way down and grow some specialized things? also, grow like you did before, make roots go sideways then sprout into another flower a ways away. that way we can work separately but together so we don't conflict.

Deal

>>183749
Good plan. Let's create another network of flowers here. Joined, but separate.

Wait a second. Warm... nutrients flowing rapidly...

Oh god did we just plant ourselves in a human

I'm thinking that even though we don't need a lot of roots, we should make them anyway. Focus more on lateral than vertical growth; if the light source is weak, we'll need to make up for it with surface area.

>>183760
!!

o 2010/05/26(Wed)21:55 No. 183784 ID: 45be60
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>>183746
Not well actually. The heat seems to be overpowering the cold on a local scale, and is increasing in intensity as it grows, though you have no data on the areas where flowers have already disappeared.

>>183749
>>183757
>>183758
>>183762
Okay, so spreading out it is. Good thing too, the area seems designed for it. It is very easy to grow out laterally from your midsection, but much more difficult for those roots to move downward. The lower root cluster has no such difficulty moving downward, but the local nutrients are less useful, and the area tingles a bit.

Your tiny paradise is growing more and more popular as the network becomes increasingly inhospitable. The cacophony of opinions fortunately agrees for the moment, but you wonder if you will EVER be able to provide enough flowers for everyone again. So many... As the concentration of voices increases, your combined perceptions begin to become dimly aware of an enormous, unfocused well of consciousness located somewhere below you.

>>183760
:3c

>>183784
Reach out to the consciousness with our network. Continue growing laterally, but halt downward root growth.

"Hello? Who are you? What are you?"

yes, let us try to greet it.

>>183784
Continue expanding laterally, sending up occasional leaves to increase available light and sending down occasional roots to draw more nutrients.

I... think we should probably ditch the leafy stem of our body and try to find a way to dig our body in deep. Under the surface where its going to be hard to find us.

Guys? I think we're inside a living organism. If we get spotted, we're going to get in so much trouble when they notice we can survive and thrive here.

We really.
REALLY

Need to hide.

... Also, hi. I'm a new consiousness.

>>183973
we may be able to burrow a little but we need the leaf to make energy.

>>183784
Shit... um... modify self to absorb the heat safely. Or modify self to produce cold in order to more effectively stop the fire from spreading.

Wait... how's the Portuguese mushroom doing?

o 2010/05/27(Thu)21:18 No. 184259 ID: 45be60
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Reasoning that you can grow and make friends at the same time, you reach out to the outside consciousness, and you are immediately overwhelmed by its depth and strength. You see so much information, so many experiences, all bombarding you at once, unfocused and random.
You find that you now understand mathematics. You know what a Ford Mustang is, and how it differs from a feral horse. You find out that lemon cake is delicious, lemons are yellow, and cake is used to celebrate things. You know that laptops get warm if you run video games on them. You understand why this happens, and could try some things to reduce the problem. You now know high school chemistry. You have more precise words to describe the various nutrients you sense around you, and you know what a high school is. You learn that lemon cake contains starch, sugars, and citric acid. You know that laptop batteries contain lithium, and that their improper disposal is bad for the environment. You are concerned about the environment now. You have learned English. You have learned some cuss-words. Finally!

The entire dizzying process takes perhaps a second. You now have a concept of time. In light of this experience, do you wish to make changes to your other plans?

(hey guys, roll me a D2 and a D6 to determine some things about this other consciousness)

rolled 1 + 1 = 2

---

proclaim "OW!" and then call out "HELLO! CAN YOU HEAR US!?"

rolled 1 = 1

---

>>184259
(that earlier roll just counted as 1d2+1, so here's the 1d6. Turns out you can't roll more than one kind of die at once.)

If we now know what kind of nutrients are around us... Well, let's describe them? It would be nice for everyone to know what we've planted ourselves in.

>>184259
Oh, and we should stop growing for now. I think we might be growing inside this consciousness's body... Further intrusion would be quite rude!

rolled 1 = 1

---

exclaim in awe at everything you now know. attempt to reach a higher level of consiousness. see trhought the minds and eyes of everything.

behold the world above, andin a fit of super-sanity, proclaim a statement that shall shatter heaven itself:

i am now a cake plant

the cake isnt a lie
inb4 we landed on kentra

>>184271

Couldn't be. It said we'd learnt english.

>>184259
see
>>183977

o 2010/05/28(Fri)22:31 No. 184719 ID: 45be60
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[man, is the dice roller broken? that's a lotta ones. Oh well, it means our FEMALE host has miraculously suffered ONE serious injury. In this case, severe head trauma.]

The consciousness begins to stir, and thoughts stronger than anything you have ever felt before wash over you. You have certainly heard more articulate thoughts though.

UUUuuug... cold... This is what cold is like. cold? but its... May? Nnnnn my head... What happened?

Well, you all are certainly more aware than this one for the moment. Time to take stock. There are several chemicals you don't recognize in the area, but the most relevant feature is a form of sugar which is readily convertable to energy with little modification to your own chemical processes, as well as a simple compound you usually have to pull from what you now think of as the air. The... fungus, yes, is now focused in this tiny island of safety. It seems with his tenuous understanding of the conversations around him, when everyone started moving over here, he just followed along. He is thinking in English now, which is easier for most of you to follow, and trying to figure out what everyone else knows about what is going on. The.. fire, probably, is spreading, though your sense of its speed is different now, at the rate things are happening recently.

>>184719
Am I even allowed to suggest? :<

Hey. Hey. Hey. Grow.

"Explosion, you were knocked out, fire is spreading, get up and move. will explain who we are when not in danger anymore."

>>184719
"Your head is hurt! Uh... I think we've planted ourselves in your head. Don't panic, though! We mean no harm! We're just sortof leeching off you like a parasite I guess. We'll stay out of your brain, ok?

Also this... building is on FIRE. Find a fire exit!"

Retract downwards roots from the tingly area. I think that's her BRAIN. We don't need to be down there, and damaging the brain is a big deal for humans. We can easily just live off her blood.

Grow a small flower up where the leaf is.

>>184722
Actually, let's keep contact. Only a little, though, so we can continue to talk to her. Talking is fun! :D

"We don't have a name. Do you have a name?"

>>184719
Keep the tendrils in her brain, but don't pull resources from them. Connect roots to her scalp blood vessels and sip deoxygenated blood.

Grow a photosensitive structure which mimics an eye. It would be nice to be able to see, after all.

>>184722
TELL THEM TO SAVE THE TULIP! IF I GET ENGULFED IN FIRE, I WILL KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!

"Houve uma explosão! Todas as plantas estão morrendo!"

>>184731
Dude, just make a new tulip. You're safe in the seed.

Reinforce your position in the human's scalp, but do not burrow down. Do not grow up unduly, either.

o 2010/05/29(Sat)00:56 No. 184789 ID: 45be60
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Wha? Voices... Am I dead? Are you an angel? No... I'm cold. I'm never cold. This is bad. The others.. What happened to them?

You know the others. There were many people here, you know several of them. They were not friends exactly, but you work together at protests. No, not you. This one. Ugh, this is a confusing way to get information. You know what a protest is. There are signs.

ugh.. The building is on fire? the explosion! I remember! Okay... Need to get out of here. I can move. That's a start. Opening my eyes, that's the next step.

brace for data overload.

>>184789
"Go on, then."

Open your eyes.

>>184755
But... I... my nectar... and my bark stem...

o 2010/06/03(Thu)23:59 No. 187568 ID: 45be60
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...Yeah, that's an explosion all right. Mist.. must have burst some sort of coolant pipe. Damn it's cold...

I just know *we* are going to get blamed for this. Ugh.. okay guardian angel, I ain't out of the woods yet. Let's go.

>>187568
Wait, no! Don't leave me!

...

*sigh*

I'm going to have to abandon my poor tulip, am I?

...

[transfer to whatever the other flowers are in]

Hey, you better find a good tulip for me or I'll... wait, why do I know stuff?

>>187568
HOLY SHIT, we can SEE.

"I suggest getting away from the coolant. Hey uh... if an ambulance comes by they're probably going to freak out about your head injury. Just so you know. Is there anyone else around? That arm lying there on the ground suggests that the explosion was very violent indeed. What were you guys protesting anyway?"

okay Ms... uhhh.. whoever you are. i think we are related to whatever you were protesting. we are currently parasiting on you but we hope to, if we cannot get into soil, become a symbiote. like use our opposite breathing methods to make it so you can hold your breath for hours or something.

o 2010/06/04(Fri)00:28 No. 187581 ID: 45be60
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End of Prologue

Time spent in containment: 12 days 4 hours
Laws of nature broken: 4
Consciousnesses saved: 579/600
Flowers unaccounted for: 1
Damage to facility: $2.4 million
Vengeance carried out: 2/8 scientists

>>187581
Awww, we left behind 21 consciousnesses! I hope they didn't... die.

Some day we're going to have to come back and get them.

Also goddamn I love this quest please continue it please please please.

THIS QUEST = Awesome.